Slackware 7 Beta Out

Anonymous Coward writes "Check the current tree changelog and you'll notice that Slackware 7.0.0-pre1 beta is out. Seems it won't be too long before the next major release; now completely based on glibc2."

Comments

Straight from the horse's mouth:

[patrikr]

Here's what Patrick Volkerding said about it in the slackware.com forum:

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I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should
lend a little justification to the version number thing.

First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd
started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I
think that's how Linux releases are made these days,
right? ;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would
actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)

I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated
their version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had
to field (way too many times) the question "why isn't
yours 6.x" or worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0"
which really drives home the effectiveness of this simple
trick. With the move to glibc and nearly everyone else
using 6.x now, it made sense to go to at least 6.0, just
to make it clear to people who don't know anything about
Linux that Slackware's libraries, compilers, and other
stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I thought they'd
all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at least
"one better", right? :)

Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I
promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless
everyone else does again ;)

Pat
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